But with Mr. Milosevic failing to agree to NATO demands, there was no move for a visit.

The President also offered a somewhat softer formulation of other NATO demands as the price for ending the bombing campaign.

Yet whoever the criminals are, it is the guerrilla movement that is taking the heat for the perceived noncompliance with NATO demands.

A1 Serbian forces pounded the hills surrounding the village where the ethnic Albanians were killed, ignoring NATO demands for an end to the onslaught.

Mr. Clinton said "we could have a bombing pause" if President Slobodan Milosevic would accept NATO demands.

Against this backdrop, the NATO demand for the right to make more punishing air strikes has placed the United Nations mission here in a tight corner.

But the multiple military structure was a NATO demand, he said.

The Bosnian Serbs complied with NATO demands and no strikes were carried out.

The intensifying air campaign is tied to efforts to get President Milosevic to agree to NATO demands.

But the officials emphasize that he needs to be seen as a serious negotiator from a sovereign country rather than as a vanquished foe capitulating to NATO demands.